On September 11, 2001, after our nation had been attacked, the leaders of Congress, flanked by their fellow members, spoke to the country in a united front.
Moments after they concluded, emotional legislators spontaneously sang "God Bless America" as they hugged each other (video follows):
God Bless America!
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The left...
Submitted by AgentAmerican on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 1:16pm.
That unity only lasted a few weeks...the left just couldn't let Bush "cash in" on this as Krugman said today. After Pearl Harbor, EVERYBODY dropped what they did and turned plowshares into swords until their utter defeat. Not today's left. Imagine them helping Hitler...
It was longer than 2 minutes
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 3:29pm.
Bush had sky high ratings. We were united as a Country. It was not until the decision to invade Iraq. Even then Bush had high approval ratings. It was not until the "mission accomplished"' banner and things going south in Iraq and the administration admitted they could not find the weapons they were looking for before the real divide began
It has just gotten worse since
Shawn, Where do you get what
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 9:11pm.
Shawn,
Where do you get what you are saying? Please see this...http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Approval.htm
Bush approval ratings were certainly incredibly high, much higher than most any President in American history after the 9/11 attacks. However, his ratings, as the link above proves, started to go down long before the Iraq War.
It is a media meme, a Liberal lie that has been passed on to too many people what you are saying. I am not saying you are lying, I believe you are repeating what so many people say all the time, but it is not true. The division started long before the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Additionally, when the Iraq War began, his ratings went up again.
The attacks on Bush, the division started before the decision to invade Iraq. I will never forget going into Left wing blogs, going to college (I was on my last semester of college when the attacks happen) and hearing Left wingers, specially after the AFghan War began in October 2001 and hearing them say that it was wrong to bomb Afghanistan. Or the Left saying stuff like, "What, we are going to bomb a nation in the stone age back to the stone age?" or stuff like, "The USSR could not defeat the Afghanis, neither will we!!" I will never forget debating Leftist on campus, professors on campus, friends at bars about what the Left was calling a dangerous patriotism.
and let us not forget that it did not take the Left long to start claiming that 9/11 was Bush's fault. Again, this blaming started LONG before the decision to go to war in Iraq.
Don't blame Bush for the lack of patriotism, love of country that runs deep on the Left. Bush's approval ratings in the 90% did not last that long. In fact, it only lasted a few months, LONG before the decision to invade Iraq.
I never blamed Bush
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 9:29pm.
I was pointing out to the poster I replied that we were united as a country for longer than two minutes
Shawn, Fair enough...but we
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 9:37pm.
Shawn,
Fair enough...but we were united as a country for about a month or two, not much longer. Certainly not until the decision to invade Iraq. The division started LONG before then. The Left had a busy agenda which involved destroying Bush and whatever foreign or domestic policy he put forward!
I find it quite amusing when anyone on the Left claims that no matter what, the Right wing will never like Obama. Hmmm....that is EXACTLY how the Left acted! NO matter what Bush said, did not say, did or did not do, the Left hated his living guts and every day just a little more and more.
Liberallies...Bush and the liberal media
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:14am.
Take a look at these comments by various "lib" pundits such as Joe Klein, Chris Matthews, Brian Williams, etc. after Bush's dramatic carrier landing nearly 2 1/2 years into his presidency.
Can you honestly envision similar praise for Obama by conservative pundits?
Jer
And what, exactly, pray tell, has Obama done---
Submitted by matthewdean on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:24am.
to deserve praise from a conservative?
MD
double
Submitted by Liberallies on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 9:37pm.
double
Correction: The unity lasted
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 11:33pm.
Correction: The unity lasted until the public no longer feared being in a large group. Once the audience returned to Broadway shows and movie theaters the money flow resumed to the Leftwing entertainment industry and there was no longer a need for the Left to fake patriotism. This happened a long time before the invasion of Iraq.
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
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Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
I don't know about that Rusty
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 11:54pm.
If we found the actual weapons we were looking for instead of traces of chemical weapons and yellowcake uranium that that they had legally it would have made all the difference
Invading Iraq so far has done more harm than good and all the good we did can be erased within months after we pull out next year
We were very united until we decided to go to war
Shock and awe, got most of it.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:11am.
WMD's were found, not in huge piles stacked neatly in warehouses.
I wouldn't call 550 tons of ☢ a "trace amount".
Record amounts of oil are flowing out of Iraq. As Iraq gets wealthier, they may be able to defend themselves against shariastan.
Maybe you didn't notice... Iraq, didn't have one of them, Ahab spring, er Arab sprung fest that is infesting the earth.
You Didn't Build That.
I actually did mention it UCW
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 12:39am.
I said the yellowcake uranium was there legally did I not? I like most people am hopeful our sacrifices were worth it, but after we leave what is to stop Iraq falling to another Saddam within months.
Things are still unstable and the clock is ticking to when we pull out.
Leaving Iraq
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 9:02am.
Whose decision was that, shawn? Not to mention against the better advice of the generals who are vastly more informed of what's going on?
-Jon
I believe it was both Bush and Obama
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 9:58am.
Bush set a time Horizon with a estimated pullout date and it became official under Obama.
Next week Congress will turn
Submitted by rbosque on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 2:03pm.
Next week Congress will turn around and sink us deeper in debt and continue their march toward a Socialist America.
This will never happen again.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 2:06pm.
Thanks to the polarity in Washington, short of a cage match nothing will ever have individual members from opposite sites engaging in such behavior.
Sorry folks but I view this
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 2:30pm.
Sorry folks but I view this as a cheap political stunt. The left will use it to promote the lie about them trying to reach across the isle. Do your job, nobody gives damn about the nancy pelosi singers.
Not with Krugman
Submitted by Ogundipe S.O. on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 2:30pm.
You're right: it's not plausible that the contemporary American Congress would be as unified ever again.
And definitely not when people like Paul ”Phoney Laureate” Krugman still mail out the talking points to Dem politicians.
I pray to the Lord Almighty to give the families of 9/11 victims the fortitude to bear the loss of their Loved ones.
I saw Krugman's article from
Submitted by Slyrr on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 3:00pm.
I saw Krugman's article from Drudge. I wish Drudge had ignored it. To know that 10 years after the event, self-hating liberals like Krugman are STILL angry. Angry not because we were attacked and because nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered. He's angry that America dared to fight back.
So much of that little article was spitting in the faces of every citizen. But he's perhaps useful as a perfect capsule of why the Liberals must be defeated. He demonstrates the liberal mind in this article so perfectly it's both beautiful and repulsive. 10 years later and he says 9/11 is 'subdued' because Americans are guilty and 'they know it'. Guilty because they didn't do more to fight Bush and prevent the war on terror. Yes, Krugman and his ilk think we deserved to be attacked, and that Guiliana, Bush, et. al. merely 'cashed in on the horror', the 'neocons drove us to war', all the stuff they've been screaming the last 10 years.
Krugman didn't even have the guts to allow comments on his article. I can see why. I know I'd have a few choice words for him, including suggestions about where he can stick his Nobel Prize.
Krugman is patently sick - pathetic.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 3:21pm.
This one truly deserves a million man march -- on the New York Times.
He expresses his vile opinion and then announces he isn't going to allow comments?
Here's one. Go to Hell, Paul Krugman.
Here's his doo doo (complete with his misspellings):
No Paul Krugman, it's not just you. You see, there are plenty other disgusting folks like you scattered around the media and Hollywood, in Washington, etc.
And yes, you have poisoned the memory of 9/11.
(;~/ gary
Krugman has debased himself...
Submitted by Jer on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 10:40pm.
and demonstrated that his liberal conscience is nothing more than the debauched soul of a petty scoundrel engaging in partisan thuggery.
Jer
Correct me if I'm wrong, but
Submitted by ant on Mon, 09/12/2011 - 1:16am.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the 'New York Slime' that warned a moooslem charity front that the FBI was suspicious of their true motives and that said 'charity' got rid of all their files as a result? I'd bet it was Krugman that made the damn phonecall.
Boy Boy
Submitted by donabernathy on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 6:37pm.
The chit was hip deep back then...huh
Quite a show.
roflmao
What?
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 11/26/2011 - 6:49am.
..chit was hip deep...
What is that supposed to mean?